The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-01
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

IN PARAGRAPHS.
Several Scholarships and Judgeships
Yet to be Disposed of by the Gov
ernor-A Mad Dog Scare al Suwannee
Residences Destroyed by the
Flames.
James NJ. Gresham's residence near Mon
roe has been burned.
R. B. Reppard, of Savannah, has given to
Grant park, Atlanta, fine deer.
The crops Of Walton county were never
more promising for the time Of year.
Camp Bros, have leased the Gainesville
street Ger line for a term of three years.
Two hundred and fifty Thousand pounds
of Georgia wool were sold in Boston re-
Gently at 3l@3l]9c. per pound.
The Central had a pay-train between
Augusta and Savannah on Thursday that
had on board $500, 900 in solid cash.
Hon. j. C. Clements will move from La
fayette to Rome the last day of this week,
where he will make his future home.
There are quite number of applications
for the position at West Point recently va
Gated by Rufus Clark, of Gainesville.
There is a negro in Athens who makes a
good living feeding cats. He buys scraps of
beef from the market and feeds the cats at
SOC. per month.
W. H. Heard, the negro who complained
to the interstate railroad commission for
being put out of the white coach at Conyers,
once taught school in Athens.
A new post office has Just been estab-
lished at j. B. Carver's Jersey farm in
Chattooga county, thirteen miles from
Rome on the Summerville road, called Ii
dlngs, with daily mail
A p Brantley & Co., of Blaclishear,
shipped to Waters, Pierce & Co., st. Louis,
Mo-, this week, $50 gallons of spirits Of
turpentine, in huge tank built for the
purpose of transportation.
The meeting of the Webster County Sun
day School Association, advertised TO meet
at Enterprise Academy on July 0, has been
postponed. Due notice will be given of the
time of holding the next meeting
f. Bethune, of Dawson, says he has cor
nered the market on blackberries and is
bearing the market. He is paying 75c. per
bushel in trade and SOC. cash He paid 81
last week and bought about 100 bushels.
There is less water in the ponds and
creeks of Terrell county than there has been
for years. The creeks are lower, and some
of the ponds that were never known to be
dry before, are without drop of water in
them.
W. B. Wolcot, of Griffin, makes the fol-
lowing claim concerning his family His
father and four grown sons, and his uncle
and three grown sons are all living and
none of them have ever tasted of tobacco
or liquor in any shape.
At cambridge the empty stable of w. w.
Wright, in his warehouse enclosure, was de
stroyed by fire at 4 o'clock Wednesday
morning. 1t originated i'll the careless
smoking of a contryman while hitching
up his team left there over night.
July will find the cotton in Dougherty
county smaller than usual, but i'll an excel
lent condition and full of forms. If the
rains discontinue now none or but few of
these forms will shed, but if they continue
for many days there viii be a general
shedding of all forms not matured into
bolls.
For several days past it has been currently
rumored on the streets at Atlanta that
Mr.. Goldsmith, Clerk of the Council, had
failed to collect license tax from his son,
Mark Goldsmith, and his brother-in-law,
DR.. j. w. McFaul, druggist. The Council
investigated the case Wednesday and moth
ing criminal was found.
Capt. j. r. Cooper, of Ogeechee, shipped
three car loads of melons to New York last
week and will go on this week himself He
has $50 acres in melons, and will stay In
New York and look after the sale of them
In person. IL is said he cleared about 81 900
last year on his melon crop, besides paying
all his expenses while in Nv York.
Peter Jackson, young negro living near
Gin Town, in East Dougherty, sustained
painful injury Tuesday. While cutting
wood his ak slipped and cut his foot through
Just above the roots of the toes. The bones
were all severed. He was brought into Al
bany and DR., Bacon stitched the foot
together and thinks that the bones may knit
c. p. Goodyear's dive after artesian water
at Brunswick, was Tuesday crowned with
success. At the depth of 40 feet he struck
vein that gives him e flow of about eighty
gallons per minute, through a three-inch
pipe, and which rises over thirty feet in a
stand pipe, the water being, if any differ
ence, freer from sulphur than the other
wells in the city.
An election was held last Saturday for
non-commisSioned officers for the Syivania
Rifles, resulting as follows: First Sergeant,
w. j. Gross; Second Sergeant, D. g. c.
Nunnally; Third Sergeant, W. NJ Hobby /;
Fourth Sergeant, Robert Arnett, ,Jr.: Fifth
Sergeant, w. f. Britt; Corporals, II. r.
Kemp, First; d. S. Edenfield, Second; J. T.
Bazemore, Third James S. Taylor, Fourth.
At Albany Monday night about II o'clock
Sam Kendall was aroused from his slumbers
by the glare of bright blaze in his room.
Startled, he cried fire with good will and
strong voice. Mrs. Kendall rushed up stairs
with pitcher of water and soon eXtin-
Suinicu INC iidIlltA utltte Tue nGlEnDOfS
rushed in to the rescue. The lamp had ex-
ploded, and its shattered remains lay spread
over the floor.
At Lafayette the residence of Col. Cicero
Gordon was consumed by fire Tuesday night.
NO one knows how the fire originated, but
It is believed to be the work of an incen-
diary. Col Gordon had Just gotten his
dwelling house completed, and it is DESTROYED
with all his household goods The fire had
made such progress when discovered that
Col. Gordon's family narrowly escaped.
Loss about $1,000 No insurance.
The highest point in the new Riverside
cemetery, at Macon, is the hill crowned by
the breastworlIs thrown up during the war
by the Confederate forces They are lust
as they stood when the war closed, and are
the only ones left intact in the country, the
others having been more OF less DESTROYED
1t is suggested that the brcastworls remain
just as they are except that they be sodded
IL would form a feature in the cemetery
that no other in the world possesses.
a meeting of the Charter Commission of
Augusta was held Wednesday to hear the
report OF the committee appointed to inves-
tigate the city officers. The report was re-
ceived and adopted and n resolution passed
that in ADMINISTRATION they had discovered
nothing rejecting upon the honor. integrity
or capacity Of any city officer, but on the
contrary, much 10 commend. Il was then
decided TO request Council 10 pay Secretary